This book examines the nature, prevention, and treatment of violence within families. It reviews the definition of contemporary families, emphasizing various structures, including nuclear families, reconstituted families, gay and lesbian families, and recent immigrant families. In addition, the volume describes the nature of and risk factors for family violence from the perspectives of both victims (e.g., infants, children, seniors) and perpetrators (e.g., adolescent family members, women). It identifies the implications and explores strategies for prevention, treatment, and services. In addition, the volume directly addresses practice and evidence-based interventions for individual perpetrators, family interventions, interventions for victims and systemwide interventions (e.g., those involving the courts, police, and national policy). Chapters review the best available quality evidence from randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, research syntheses, and evidence-based recommendations from expert panels and government agencies. Case studies illustrate the application of evidence-based practice to violence within the family to demonstrate the effectiveness of the intervention.
Topics featured in this book include:
- Definition and conceptualization of family.
- Definition and measurement of as well as risk factors for family violence.
- Family violence in various traditional and nontraditional families.
- Prevention strategies as well as Individual and family treatments for perpetrators and victims of family violence.
- Social policy and legal interventions for family violence.
Violence in Families is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other professionals in developmental psychology, family studies, forensic psychology, criminology/criminal justice, public health, psychotherapy/counseling, psychiatry, social work, educational policy and politics, health psychology, nursing, and behavioral therapy/rehabilitation.
本書探討家庭內暴力的性質、預防及治療。它回顧當代家庭的定義，強調各種結構，包括核心家庭、重組家庭、同性戀家庭以及新移民家庭。此外，本書從受害者（例如嬰兒、兒童、老年人）和施暴者（例如青少年家庭成員、女性）的角度描述家庭暴力的性質及風險因素。它識別出相關的影響，並探討預防、治療及服務的策略。此外，本書直接針對個別施暴者的實務及基於證據的介入、家庭介入、受害者介入及系統性介入（例如涉及法院、警察及國家政策的介入）。各章節回顧來自隨機對照試驗、系統性回顧、統合分析、研究綜述及專家小組和政府機構的基於證據的建議的最佳可用質量證據。案例研究展示了基於證據的實踐在家庭暴力中的應用，以證明介入的有效性。
本書所涵蓋的主題包括：
- 家庭的定義和概念化。
- 家庭暴力的定義、測量及風險因素。
- 各種傳統及非傳統家庭中的家庭暴力。
- 預防策略以及對施暴者和受害者的個別及家庭治療。
- 家庭暴力的社會政策和法律介入。
《家庭中的暴力》是研究人員、教授、研究生以及臨床醫生、治療師及其他發展心理學、家庭研究、法醫心理學、犯罪學/刑事司法、公共衛生、心理治療/諮詢、精神醫學、社會工作、教育政策與政治、健康心理學、護理及行為治療/康復等專業人士必備的資源。
Peter Sturmey is professor of psychology and The Graduate Center and the Department of Psychology, City University of New York. He specializes in applied behavior analysis in neurodevelopmental disorders, behavioral approaches to clinical psychology, and violence and aggression. His research has focused on staff and parent training. He has published over 30 authored and edited volumes, over 200 journal articles, over 80 book chapters and is the series editor for Springer's
Advances in Prevention and Treatment of Violence and Aggression.
